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The Sandpiper Celia Thaxter. 



The Skylark James Hogg. 



The Wounded Curlew Celia Thaxter. 



The Birds of Killingworth 'Longfellow. 



The Singing Lesson Jean Ingelow. 



Robin Redbreast William Arlingham. 



The Winter-king Selected. 



Flowers: 



Daffodils Wordsworth. 

 Bluebell Selected. 

 The Flower Tennyson. 



Trees: 



A forest Hymn Bryant. 



The Planting of the Apple Tree Longfellow. 



Woodman 'Spare that Tree Morris. 



Woods in Winter Longfellow. 



How the Leaves Came Down Susan Coolidge, 



Nature: 



The Brook Tennyson. 



Break, Break, Break Tennyson. 



The Wanderer Eugene Field. 



The 'Ocean Byron. 



The Chambered Nautilus Holmes. 



Thanatopsis Bryant. 



The Stranger on the Sill Thomas Buchanan Read. 



The Cloud Shelley. 



Darkness Byron. 



The Seasons: 



The Death of the Flowers Bryant. 



September Helen Hunt Jackson. 



October's Bright Blue Weather Helen Hunt Jackson. 



The First 'Snowfall Lowell. The Corn Song Whittier. 



Freaks of the Frost Hannah Gould. 



Snow Bound Whittier. 



It Snows Sarah Hale. 



Midwinter Trowbridge. 



The Dying Year Prentice. 



The Snowstorm James Thomson. 



A Summer Longing George Arnold. 



Spring Again Celia Thaxter. 



March Wordsworth. 



April Day Caroline Southey. 



The Rainy Day Longfellow. 



